From 1bf72720281770162c87990697eae1ba2f1d917a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Geert Uytterhoeven Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 09:09:35 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] cpu/speculation: Warn on unsupported mitigations= parameter Currently, if the user specifies an unsupported mitigation strategy on the kernel command line, it will be ignored silently. The code will fall back to the default strategy, possibly leaving the system more vulnerable than expected. This may happen due to e.g. a simple typo, or, for a stable kernel release, because not all mitigation strategies have been backported. Inform the user by printing a message. Fixes: 98af8452945c5565 ("cpu/speculation: Add 'mitigations=' cmdline option") Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Jiri Kosina Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Ben Hutchings Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190516070935.22546-1-geert@linux-m68k.org --- kernel/cpu.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/cpu.c b/kernel/cpu.c index 077fde6..551db49 100644 --- a/kernel/cpu.c +++ b/kernel/cpu.c @@ -2339,6 +2339,9 @@ static int __init mitigations_parse_cmdline(char *arg) cpu_mitigations = CPU_MITIGATIONS_AUTO; else if (!strcmp(arg, "auto,nosmt")) cpu_mitigations = CPU_MITIGATIONS_AUTO_NOSMT; + else + pr_crit("Unsupported mitigations=%s, system may still be vulnerable\n", + arg); return 0; } -- 2.7.4